Denville man gets 3 years for hitting pedestrian, leaving him in snowbank

11:59 AM,
Dec. 13, 2012

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A chef from Denville was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for striking a pedestrian with his car, leaving the injured man, and returning hours later to remove the victim from a snowbank.

"I'm very sorry for what I've done. It's in your hands, whatever is appropriate, and I'll do my best to deal with it," defendant Gerardo Durso told Superior Court Judge Thomas V. Manahan as he gulped back tears.

The sentence calls for Durso to serve 85 percent of the three-year stint before parole consideration and he must serve three years on parole upon release. Though the state suspected, but ...